#166 Executive Chairman & Former CEO Attentive, Brian Long: Problem Hunting
Guest: Brian Long, former CEO of Attentive and author of Problem Hunting: The Tech Startup TextbookBrian Long’s most recent company, Attentive, was originally designed to help clients communicate with...
27 Nov 20231h 4min
#165 Former CEO & Co-Founder of Zillow, Spencer Rascoff: Real Estate Voyeurism
Guest: Spencer Rascoff, co-founder and former CEO of Zillow + co-founder and general partner at 75 & Sunny When terrorists attacked the US on 9/11, Hotwire co-founder Spencer Rascoff and his colleague...
20 Nov 20231h 11min
#164 CEO & Co-Founder Duolingo, Luis von Ahn: "The Pitch Was Never Pittsburgh"
Guest: Luis von Ahn, CEO and co-founder of DuolingoWhen Luis von Ahn wanted to go to college in the United States, he had to take a standardized test called the TOEFL, or Test of English as a Foreign ...
13 Nov 20231h 3min
#163 CEO Bill, René Lacerte: Hourglass Leadership
Guest: René Lacerte, CEO of BillRené Lacerte co-founded the online payroll firm PayCycle in 1999, and led it for six years until he was asked by the board to step down. Today, with 17 years as the CEO...
6 Nov 20231h 3min
#162 CEO & Co-Founder Rippling, Parker Conrad w/ Mamoon Hamid: Compounding
Guests: Parker Conrad, CEO of Rippling, and Mamoon Hamid, partner at Kleiner PerkinsHow long did it take for Parker Conrad to stop wanting revenge? “I’ll let you know when it switches over,” the Rippl...
30 Okt 20231h 2min
#161 Founder & EVP of Oracle NetSuite, Evan Goldberg: Endless Possibilities
Guest: Evan Goldberg, founder and EVP of Oracle NetsuiteIn the late 1980s and early 1990s, Evan Goldberg working at Oracle, helping to bring its database software to the Mac. He left in 1995 because “...
23 Okt 20231h 5min
#160 CEO Grammarly, Rahul Roy-Chowdhury: Better, Not More
Guest: Rahul Roy-Chowdhury, CEO of GrammarlyDriven by generative tools like ChatGPT, artificial intelligence is hot — but Grammarly CEO Rahul Roy-Chowdhury wishes that “AI” stood for something else: “...
16 Okt 20231h 2min
#159 CEO 1Password, Jeff Shiner: Chief Eliminator of Obstacles
Guest: Jeff Shiner, CEO of 1PasswordFar from the Silicon Valley bubble, in Waterloo, Ontario, they try to do things a bit differently, says 1Password CEO Jeff Shiner. “Our mantra has been, build a goo...
9 Okt 20231h 4min
